"Recent advances in technology allow potential adversaries to manipulate existing pathogens..and create new ones, leading to an almost infinite number of new hazards..Adding to the complexity of the problem, those dangers can be naturally occurring, accidental or deliberate"
"Russia and China now have the technology necessary both to tweak current threats β from toxins to naturally occurring pathogens β to make them more deadly and to create new weapons, [Deputy Assistant Secretary for Chemical and Biological Defense] Watson said."
"'We see what we have to prepare for, for the National Defense Strategy, for the pacing threat of China and Russia,' Watson said. 'We see not only the technology, the intel, the intent, and also the potential impact it would have..if we donβt prepare. Itβs a different scale'"
(It also would be prudent to discontinue US-government funding to overseas bioweapons-agents discovery and bioweapons-agents enhancement research programs, such as the USAID- and NIAID-funded research programs on SARS-like coronaviruses in Wuhan in 2012-2019.)
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